Terry Zwigoff

Daniel Clowes: The Hero Complex interview

2012-07-19 16:32:31

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Authors & Ideas: A talk with Daniel Clowes about the likable curmudgeon 'Wilson'

2010-05-30 00:00:00

He's the kind of guy who waxes rhapsodic about his love for the human race but curses people who don't smile at his dog. He's full of odes to the sweep of life and won't stop sharing them with the strangers he accosts in coffee shops. He has no job and no...

Bravo TV's 'Work of Art' favors emo-hipster backstabber Miles Mendenhall

2010-06-17 16:32:58

An uneasy accord

2005-10-23 00:00:00

LAST year, one of Canada's most prestigious museums approached the cartoonist Seth, whose work combines realistic, character-based storytelling with a muted, nostalgic visual style reminiscent of Edward Hopper, about a show of contemporary artists who use...

Achingly drawn conclusions

2004-02-08 00:00:00

The Partisan Review may have folded in the last year, but alienation and ennui are alive and well in American letters. Ironically, at the same time that comic-book protagonists have earned a new literary respect, they have lost the ability to transform...

Hitting a nerve

2002-10-28 00:00:00

Consumerism and the counterculture collide hard on Telegraph Avenue, where political posters fill the space between chain stores. Three kids in hooded sweatshirts crouch on the sidewalk: "Can you spare some change ... for pot?" Away from the clamor,...

Northwestern tackles the career (and controversies) of Tyler Perry

2012-11-22 00:00:00

There are no sacred cows on the NBC sitcom "30 Rock." The show happily skewers its own network along with any number of pop-culture phenomena, and last week's episode was no different, with a running joke aimed squarely in the direction of Tyler Perry,...

A New Book by Cartoonist Daniel Clowes Reveals the Secrets to His Success

2012-08-29 08:50:00

The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist Edited by Alvin Buenaventura (Abrams ComicArts, 224 pages, $40) � Long before his work ended up on the silver screen, Daniel Clowes constructed his graphic novels as though all along he had a cinema...

HBO developing 'Landlord' with Clowes: 'Ghost World' writer working on comedy for pay cabler

2012-07-25 21:55:07

HBO is in development with writer Daniel Clowes on half-hour comedy "The Landlord." "Little Miss Sunshine" directors "Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, whose new film "Ruby Sparks" opens today, have shown interest in the project. "We just looked over the...

Interview with Zippy creator Bill Griffith

2012-02-08 09:35:00

Good thing Bill Griffith did not take Marcel Duchamp seriously. Otherwise, we'd be without Zippy (aka Zippy the Pinhead), the best-drawn daily underground comic strip in America, still running in 300 newspapers. Griffith, at the time a 19-year-old art...

'Bones' Co-Star Having 'Fun' Writing

2008-05-05 00:00:00

Walt Disney and Scott Rudin Prods. are moving forward on the family comedy "Hours of Fun," hiring actor-turned-scribe John Francis Daley and his writing partner Jonathan Goldstein to polish the screenplay. According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Hours of...

Suplee Draws on Showbiz Smarts for 'Art School'

2006-05-03 00:00:00

Although many actors secretly want to be directors, Ethan Suplee gets to play one in Terry Zwigoff's "Art School Confidential." Suplee plays Vince, the obnoxious roommate of protagonist Jerome (Max Minghella) at the artsy Strathmore Institute. While...

Billy Bob Thornton, left, and Tony Cox in Terry Zwigoff s movie "Bad Santa."

2006-10-30 13:44:14